Gable Tostee has been charged with the murder of New Zealand tourist Warriena Tagpuno Wright one week after the 26-year-old fell from his 14th-floor balcony on the Gold Coast.

Ms Wright reportedly met Tostee on mobile dating app Tinder after she travelled to Australia for a friend's wedding.

The 28-year-old bodybuilder was arrested on Friday morning and taken to Southport Watch house just after 12.30pm. He was charged with murder at 2.02pm and is scheduled to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court on Saturday.

He wore thongs, black shorts and a white t-shirt as he was escorted, in handcuffs, by two detectives in black suits into custody.

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Tostee was arrested on Friday on the Gold Coast and charged with murder

Tostee was escorted to the Gold Coast watch house by detectives in black suits

Police first questioned Tostee last week but they said he had 'exercised his right to silence'.

Queensland police said: 'At 2.02pm today, police have charged a 28-year-old Surfers Paradise man with murder following investigations into the sudden death of a 26-year-old New Zealand woman at a Surfers Paradise high-rise apartment complex on August 8.'

Officers arrested Tostee at his parents' home in Carrara, Queensland, where he has been staying since Ms Wright's death last week.

Tostee's lawyer told the ABC he would plead not guilty to a charge of murder and would be seeking bail.

On Thursday the sister of Ms Wright spoke out about her grief after losing 'the most important person' in her life.

Reza Tagpuno Wright, 23, braved the public glare of the media and made a tearful public appeal for information surrounding the 26-year-old's fatal fall almost a week ago during a press conference at 11am.

Reza described her sister - who worked at Kiwibank - as funny, a practical joker, supportive and her 'best friend'.

Reluctantly facing the media to make an emotional plea for witnesses to her sister's death, Reza broke down several times and asked for 'just anything, please anything'.

Warriena Tagpuno Wright's sister Reza said she had spoken to her about eight hours before Ms Wright fell to her death

Police will allege she was attempting to climb down to the balcony below to escape Tostee when she fell to her death

It will be alleged Tostee hid behind a pillar as police surrounded Ms Wright's body

Sitting between the chief police investigator in the case, Detective superintendent Dave Hutchinson, and a family friend identified only as Hayley, Ms Wright said the last time she had spoken to her older sister was at 8pm New Zealand time last Thursday, August 7 - about eight hours before Warriena fell to her death.

She is the first family member of the late Ms Wright's family to be seen since her sister's fatal fall in the early hours of last Friday morning.

Reza told how her mother was all she had now and said Warriena took care of her and mother.

'She was not only my sister, she was my best friend,' Reza said.

'She kept me and my friends entertained and happy.

Reza Tagpuno (left) fronted media and made the impassioned plea for more information about her sister Warriena Wright's death on Thursday

The 23-year-old described her sister (pictured) as an animal lover and the 'most important person' in her life

She remembered her sister as a jokester - who played pranks on her - and looked after her

‘She was a very beautiful, cheerful, intelligent person who not only was my sister....

‘It’s hard for me facing the loss of my sister without knowing what happened in the last hours of her life,' she added.

Reza said Warriena was 'very excited' about her trip to Australia for the wedding of a former work colleague.

She said the photograph of her sister laughing with a snake wrapped around her neck on a visit to Australia Zoo days before her death was 'typical' of 'Rrie'.

'She was a practical joker. She always played pranks on me,' Reza said.

The 23-year-old said they had a very close relationship.

'She looked out for me, made sure I was okay.

'Most of the time we really only had each other.

'She was very responsible.'

Reza, 13, said her sister was her 'best friend' and she wants to know what happened to her

Reza broke down as she said: 'It's hard for me facing the loss of my sister without knowing what happened in the last hours of her life'

Reza said her sister, who worked in the credit card section of Kiwibank, had last contacted her via Facebook and they had a normal conversation about Rrie's car which needed fixing.

She said her family were keenly suffering the loss of Warriena, particularly their mother, Beth Wright.

'It's really hard on everyone,' Reza said.

'Mum...she's not good. She's...more like the child.

'This is really hard for us.'

Ms Wright said she would stay as long as it was necessary to help the investigation, but she wanted to return to New Zealand.

'I will stay as long as I can, as long as I need to be here [but] I really just want to go home.'

Reza flew into Brisbane in Queensland with her mother on Wednesday morning and met with detectives from the task force investigating the young woman's death.

Her family's arrival came three weeks after Warriena landed in Australia for a much-anticipated holiday for a friend's wedding.

Dressed all in black, Beth Wright - who is a senior member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Porirua, New Zealand - kept her head bowed as she and Reza were accompanied through the airport.

Warriena Tagpuno Wright, 26, died on Friday after she was last seen on the balcony of Gable Tostee's 14th floor home at the Avalon Apartment complex

Reza talked to her sister on Thursday night, just before her death early Friday morning

Gable Tostee (far right) in his underwear at a Mr Right competition at Shooters Superclub on the Gold Coast in 2011

Sin City manager Ty Davidson said Tostee was banned from a number of clubs, including Sin City and Vanity

Tostee was a regular at Sin City and other clubs on the Gold Coast's party strip

They arrived two days after the completion of a post-mortem on Warriena who plunged to her death from the 14th floor of the Avalon Apartments at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in the early hours of last Friday morning.

Ms Wright fell to her death following an evening at the home of labourer Tostee, who she had met on dating site Tinder.

She was in the final days of her Australian trip for a friend's wedding, before she was meant to be flying back to her native New Zealand.

Mr Tostee denied via social media any involvement in Ms Wright's death after he spent more than two hours being questioned by police on the same day the incident happened.

He has also hit back at reports police took footage away from his Gold Coast unit of his conquests.

Footage aired on Nine News reportedly shows Mr Tostee hosting a girl in an apartment. It shows a woman apparently stealing his wallet before leaving in the middle of the night.

'This footage was from a security camera in the living room of my previous apartment at Circle on Cavill in 2012. I only had one other camera in the apartment which was at the front entry facing the door. Neither camera was used to film sexual encounters,' Tostee wrote on Facebook.

'You can clearly see that the layout in this footage does NOT resemble an Avalon apartment and I have never had any cameras installed anywhere in my Avalon apartment.

'I had these cameras set up in my old apartment solely for security purposes.

'The reason I posted this in 2012 was because the girl in the video stole the wallet from my table and I eventually got it back thanks to the footage,' he added.

Tostee posted on a bodybuilding forum that he was 'obsessed' with filming things and told how he caught the woman stealing from him in August 2012.

'Brought a chick back with me from club last night. Woke up later, realised my wallet was gone. Looked everywhere, then checked my home surveillance video in my living room,' he wrote.

'When she left she snatched it off the table! All I have is her number, can't even remember her name. How should I go about getting my wallet back???'

Video footage that appeared on Nine News reportedly shows Gable Tostee hosting a woman in his apartment

The woman is dressed in a white top and dark-coloured skirt walking around inside an apartment

'I also have mini spy cameras which I've used for fun when I've gone out and had a drunken night or something,' he wrote in 2012, according to The Courier Mail.

'I'd attach the spy camera to one side of my jeans pockets and an 3w IR (infra-red) light for night vision to the other pocket, battery in another pocket.

'Didn't work all that great since all you could see were peoples' hips, so gave up on that in the end.'

Tostee also claimed to have bought a telescope for looking at 'neighbours, people on the street etc' and a drone with a fixed camera which he used to fly off his balcony and film people, according to Stuff.co.nz.

Since the tragedy, police have been seen at the Wahroonga Place building where Warriena plunged to her death to collect forensic evidence.

On Wednesday, one scientific officer, a police photographer and a fire officer went up in the bucket of a cherry picker to collect fibres, human remains and DNA from the outside of the 14th and 13th floor balconies.

People lay flowers at the Avalon Apartment building on Wednesday, Warriena Tagpuno Wright fell to her death from a 14-floor balcony last week

Tostee is a regular on the Gold Coast's party strip and often visited nightclubs such as Crazy Horse, Cocktails, Club Liv, Bourbon Bar, Players, Alive, Vanity and Sin City.

In a long-running Facebook thread seen by Daily Mail Australia, nine Gold Coast women recounted their run-ins with Mr Tostee.

'Woah that's so f***ed,’ one woman replied to the news that Warriena Tagpuno Wright plunging to her death after meeting Mr Tostee.

Another replied: 'You would remember him hun, everyone in the [nightclub] industry does'.

She added she 'always’ thought there was ‘something not right about this guy'.

Another participant recalled: 'Honestly I've had so many run ins with this guy.'

Yet another said: 'Omg!! I remember this dude! He was sooooo weird. Him and his mate would go home and change their shirts half way through the night.'

'OMFG. I met this guy on Tinder four months ago,' wrote another participant woman, before detailing her an encounter with him.

Mr Tostee was barred from Vanity and Sin City after staff decided they did not like his behaviour.

‘He was just creepy,’ Sin City manager Ty Davidson said.

‘He was here all the time. Everyone along here knows him. Even after he was banned, he’d come on nights when the bouncer didn’t know him and try and get back in.’

A bouncer at one of the clubs along the strip told Daily Mail Australia Mr Tostee would obsessively film events with his phone and in one case a violent incident outside a club until he was told to leave.

He entered a ‘Mr Right’ male model search competition at Shooters three years ago and was banned from Vanity in 2012, and from Sin City some time after that.

Police were at the 14th floor of the Avalon Apartments on the Gold Coast on Tuesday as part of their investigation

Detective Superintendent Dave Hutchinson said police have obtained statements from 'a number of women'.

Detectives have also interviewed his parents Gray and Helene Tostee at their home in a gated community in Carrara, west of the Gold Coast tourist strip.

Supt Hutchinson said a 'forensic procedure order' had been carried out against Tostee, which is believed to have included blood samples and a DNA swab.

His lawyer, Michael Purcell, said his client would not be making a statement to police in the foreseeable future.

But Mr Tostee took to a body building forum three times on Monday to talk about the investigation.

At 10.21am, he wrote on the forum: 'I've been advised not to go into details but all I will say is that I absolutely did NOT cause this girl to fall and that I am devastated about what happened to her.'

11.18am: 'Fact is I’ve taken home probably about 150 girls from clubs over the last few years. When you go out often to the same places and get drunk and talk to girls you’re bound to get noticed and hated on, and people gossip.

'Eventually it turns into Chinese whispers where people have a completely false impression of you.

'Most people who know me have been completely supportive, it's those who don't know me at all who assume the worst.'

Thirteen minutes later, at 11.31am, he added, 'My reputation has already been destroyed without me saying anything at all. It’s nothing I haven’t already posted in this thread, but that’s all I have to say for now.'